Kate Temple

Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.

Angleterre, 1307. Edward II est devenu roi. A peine couronné, il s’empresse de faire revenir Gaveston, son amant exilé en France. La cour se montre aussitôt très choquée par les moeurs dissolues de son souverain. Condamnée par la société, sa relation homosexuelle avec Gaveston se renforce.

Evocation des idees de Wittgenstein, philosophe autrichien, a travers l'histoire de sa vie. Ludwig est ne a Vienne en 1889. Il est le plus jeune des neuf enfants d'une famille riche sur laquelle le sort s'est acharne. En effet, sur ses quatre freres, trois se sont suicides, et le quatrieme, pianiste celebre, a perdu un bras pendant la Premiere Guerre mondiale.